Theodor Adorno

Author(s)

• Schmidt, James

Bibliographic Information

Theodor Adorno

edited by James Schmidt

（International library of essays in the history of social and political thought）

Ashgate, c2007

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This collection provides an overview of the English language reception of the work of the philosopher, social theorist and cultural critic, Theodor W. Adorno. The first part of the collection contains sketches of Adorno's career by Martin Jay, Irving Wolfarth and Adorno's colleague, Leo Lowenthal. Part two examines Adorno's general conception of critical theory and includes influential essays by Frederic Jameson, Susan Buck-Morss and Gillian Rose. The third part of the collection contains essays examining Adorno's cultural criticism and focuses, in particular, on his critique of the 'culture industry'. Part four brings together a group of interpretive essays on the most important product of Adorno's American exile, "Dialectic of Enlightenment" - a work written in collaboration with his colleague, Max Horkheimer. The final section is made up of essays exploring Adorno's later work on the relationship between art and utopia, with particular attention to his posthumously-published "Aesthetic Theory".

Table of Contents

• Part I Three Portraits: The permanent exile of Theodor W. Adorno, Martin Jay
• Hibernation: on the 10th anniversary of Adorno's death, Irving Wohlfarth
• Recollections of Theodor W. Adorno, Leo Lowenthal. Part II Philosophy as a Critique: T.W. Adorno, or, historical tropes, Frederic Jameson
• How is critical theory possible? Theodor W. Adorno and concept formation in sociology, Gillian Rose
• T.W. Adorno and the dilemma of bourgeois philosophy, Susan Buck-Morss
• Introduction to Adorno's 'idea of natural history', Robert Hullot-Kentor. Part III Culture and Society: Adorno in reverse: from Hollywood to Richard Wagner, Andreas Huyssen
• The displaced intellectual? Adorno's American years revisited, Peter U. Hohendahl
• Damage control: Adorno, Los Angeles, and the dislocation of culture, Nico Israel
• Why did Adorno 'hate' jazz?, Robert Witkin
• Why is Adorno's music criticism the way it is?, Rose Rosengard
• The language character of music: some motifs in Adorno, Max Paddison. Part IV Reason, Domination and the Subject: Language, mythology and enlightenment: historical notes on Horkheimer and Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment, James Schmidt
• The entwinement of myth and enlightenment: re-reading Dialectic of Enlightenment, Jurgen Habermas
• Between modernity and postmodernity: reading Dialectic of Enlightenment against the grain, Christopher Rocco
• The sundered totality: Adorno's Freudo-Marxism, Deborah Cook
• Why were the Jews sacrificed? The place of anti-semitism in Dialectic of Enlightenment, Anson Rabinbach. Part V Art, Truth and Utopia: Utopia, mimesis and reconciliation: a redemptive critique of Adorno's Aesthetic Theory, Richard Wolin
• Art and criticism in Adorno's aesthetics, Raymond Geuss
• Truth, semblance and reconciliation: Adorno's aesthetic redemption of modernity, Albrecht Wellmer
• Toward a more adequate reception of Adorno's Aesthetic Theory: configurational form in Adorno's aesthetic writings, Shierry Weber Nicholsen
• Mimetic rationality and material inference: Adorno and Brandom, J.M. Bernstein
• Index.

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Details

• NCID: BA84069182
• ISBN:
  • 9780754626992
• LCCN: 2007005107
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Aldershot
• Pages/Volumes: xviii, 537 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : B3199.A34
  • DC22 : 193
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA77651322